Moscow, June 12.
Foreigners residing in the Soviet Union are feeling the discomforting effects of the spy mania which has how gripped large sections of the population. Every foreigner is coming to be regarded as a spy and everywhere there is talk of a general expulsion of foreigners from the Soviet Union.
'The secret police have recently been rounding up emigrant Communists from Germany and Austria. 'Among those who' have suddenly. Jaisappeared are former leaders of the German Communist Party and of the Communist youth organization, and also Communist ex-members of jthe German Reichstag. It is impossible to obtain any official confirmation of these arrest sts, 'A report was current here yesterday that a number of German and 'Japanese Consulates in the Soviet 'Union are to be closed down. Of the seven German Consulates in Soviet, Russia those primarily affected are situated at Odessa and Vladivostok, is stated. Ht is not known' what Japanese Consulates will be affected. I'is said the Kremlin has variously "suggested" that such actions taken on the grounds that in the absence of foreigners, there is no further need to maintain consulates fu these provincial towns—Trans-'Ocean.
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